Vita venerabilis Arnesti (vulgò Ernesti) primi Archiepiscopi Pragensis : nobilitate sanguinis, sapientiâ ac litteris, morum innocentiâ & sanctimoniâ, rebus maximis gestis, ac denique virtutibus omnibus antistitis clarissimi : ex ijs quae de eo vitae scriptor coaevus collegit, aliísq[ue] vetustissimis, ac fide dignis monimentis : addita sunt accuratissimae notae, quibus eorum temporum, totiúsq[ue] Regni Bohemiae historia multùm illustratur / authore Bohuslao Aloysio Balbino ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balbín, Bohuslav, 1621-1688.

Contributor:

Czech Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Pardubic, Arnošt z, 1297-1364.

Pardubic, Arnošt z.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--History--To 1526.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Zbraslausky, Wenceslaus (inscription)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 152, 155-450 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

g.bi g-dt p-se stbe (3) 1664 (R)

Place of Publication:

Excudebat Pragae : In Archiepiscopali Typographia apud S. Benedictum in Collegio S. Norberti, Adamus Kastner, Anno MDCLXIV [1664]

Notes:

Signatures: a-c⁴ A-3K⁴ 3L-3S².

Variant: leaf b3 signed 3b.

Pages 15 and 263 numbered 25 and 163, respectively.

Engraved plates.

Woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Printed marginalia.

"Errata maiora" and directions to binder on leaf 3R4v.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [21]-[24] among preliminaries) and index.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf b3 signed correctly.

Penn Libraries copy has partially effaced early ms. inscription ("Hunc libru[m] donavit ... Capellaniae Anno 168... Wencesla[us] Zbraslauskÿ Canonic[us] Pragensis Doctor SS. Theologiae") on front pastedown; partially effaced ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris Archi-Ep[isco]palis Capellaniae ...") on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full vellum; early ms. title on spine; 2 green cloth ties; all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in tail margin of leaves L1-3S2, folded plate, plate inserted before leaf 3C1, back free endpaper and back pastedown; wormhole in lower portion of leaves S2-3S2, folded plate, plate inserted before leaf 3C1,back free endpaper and back pastedown, with occasional minor damage to text.

Cited in:

Backer-Sommervogel I, 794

OCLC:

16797506